Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Bearish on Donald Trump Cameo

Donald Trump photo by Michele Sandberg.Hair mogul Donald Trump has ended up on the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps cutting-room floor! Unlike cameos by Vogue editor at large Hamish Bowles, economist Nouriel Roubini, billionaire Warren Buffett, and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, among many others, a scene featuring the Apprentice magnate did not make it into the final film. “I only cut it because it was distracting,” said director Oliver Stone, who promised the sequence would be included on the DVD. “He was at the end of the movie and all of sudden, ‘Hey, there’s Donald Trump!’ Structurally, I think we put him in too late.” According to the New York Post, the cameo in question took place at a barbershop, with Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko and Trump exchanging revelations about their follicular foibles. However, compared with many of the other cameos in the film, the scene sounds relatively inconspicuous. Below are some screenshots from the final version of the movie, all of which contain cameos that this blogger thought were rather disconcerting. Miley Cyrus’s turn as a 17-year-old warden at the prison occupied by Gekko felt far-fetched.

CGI Richard Nixon as a helicopter pilot seemed gratuitous.

It’s possible Stone was simply contractually obligated to include Justin Long in every shot of a Mac.

Balloon Boy? We’re skeptical about how well that reference is going to age.